Mecardonia procumbens |
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baby jump-up |
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Stems | spreading, prostrate, or ascending, 10–60 cm, glandular. |
Leaves | glandular; blade 10–25 × 6–12 mm, 4–8 times bracts, margins sharply serrate. |
Pedicels | ascending, 7–25 mm. |
Flowers | calyx lobes equal; corolla lemon yellow with reddish veins in throat, abaxial lip prominent, adaxial lobes connate nearly to apices; stamens medially adnate to corolla. |
Capsules | 4–5 mm. |
Seeds | 60–80, brown, radial walls of reticulum mamillate. |
2n | = 22, 44. |
Mecardonia procumbens |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Oct. |
Habitat | Wetlands, edges of streams, springs and seeps, deserts in upland washes and canyons with moisture. |
Elevation | 90–1600 m. [300–5200 ft.] |
Distribution |
AL; AZ; FL; GA; LA; MS; NM; TX; Mexico; Central America [Introduced in Asia (India, Sri Lanka), Africa (Cameroon, Sierra Leone), Australia]
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 275. |
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Synonyms | Erinus procumbens, Bacopa procumbens, M. tenuis |
Name authority | (Miller) Small: Fl. S.E. U.S., 1065, 1338. (1903) |
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